"The U.S. has asked Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to take in about 9,000 Afghans who assisted with the American occupation." There are over 18,000 of these applicants, over 50,000 family members, and they deserve US green cards, not this weak shit.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-02/u-s-asks-central-asian-nations-to-take-afghans-seeking-visas …
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The implicit fear is that some of these applicants are dangerous terrorists who have masked their intentions. But that just makes the United States, a superpower of over 300 million, look weak and cowardly. We have plenty of dangerous terrorists already, domestically produced.
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This is the same way we treat refugees, incidentally. The few who get permission to settle in the US have to wait for years in holding camps for the process to clear, instead of just being allowed to come and live on provisional status, and be welcomed by their new home country.
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If you want desperate people to stop trying to cross the border illegally, then you have to start treating legal immigrants, especially people who risked their lives to help your soldiers stay alive in their own country, with dignity and respect.
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